Sentences with phrase «helped turn its director»

BEETLEJUICE (1988) is a cult classic that helped turn its director, Tim Burton, into a household name.

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The director would not say whether the probe has turned up evidence that Trump associates may have schemed with Russians during a campaign marked by email hacking that investigators believe was aimed at helping the Republican defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Blake Irving has been the CEO and Board Director of GoDaddy, the world's largest platform for small business - helping millions of independent ventures to grow and thrive online by giving them the digital tools and insights to turn their ambitions into something real.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

Their decisions — such as hiring a village trustee as park district director — have come under question and prompted residents to turn to state lawmakers for help.

She turned to Sherry Murone, executive director of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Coastal Georgia, who was eager to help.

«The Clinton campaign's new plans to invest millions more into this coordinated effort — with an eye towards key battleground House districts — will help us turn out a record number of voters across the country in the final weeks of this campaign,» DCCC Executive Director Kelly Ward said in statement Monday.

«It involves actually physically turning the baby by placing hands on the woman's uterus to almost help the baby do somersaults inside the uterus,» Joanne Stone, MD, director of maternal fetal medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, previously told Health.

Shannon Kaiser, art director and graphic designer — turned — happiness author and happiness guru, pairs unique mantras with inspiring designs in an effort to help you maximize your daily potential.

On a sunny weekday afternoon, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, the renowned 49 - year - old heart surgeon (vice-chairman and professor of surgery at Columbia University and director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York — Presbyterian Hospital), co-author of five best - selling books in the You series, YOU: The Owners Manual, YOU: The Smart Patient, YOU: On a Diet, You: Staying Young, and You: Being Beautiful — and newly minted host of his own nationally syndicated daytime talk - show, The Dr. Oz Show — drove out to the Carrolls home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to help the family turn things around.

In 1997, Kors was named the first - ever women's ready - to - wear designer and creative director of Céline, where he helped to turn the French fashion house around with successful accessories and a critically acclaimed ready - to - wear line, before leaving in October 2003 to concentrate on his own brand.

Returning to Disney as a director in 1960, Swift turned out two of that studio's most profitable films of the decade, Pollyanna (1960) and The Parent Trap (1961), both of which helped secure the stardom of Hayley Mills.

It doesn't help that Coogler, one of the most promising directors of his generation, is still learning the ropes of CGI - enhanced special effects, and it turns many of the battle's most important beats into a confusing mishmash.

Anglade sealed his success with Maladie d'Amour (1987) and Nocturne Indien (1989) before reuniting with director Besson in Nikita; the film, which cast him as the boyfriend of the titular punk turned assassin (Anne Parillaud), helped him attract notice in the United States.

Higher Ground (Director: Vera Farmiga; Screenwriters: Carolyn S. Briggs and Tim Metcalfe)-- A frustrated young mother turns to a fundamentalist community for answers, but after years of dogma and loss, she must find the courage to ask the questions that will help her reclaim her life.

Dancer - turned - director Anne Fletcher chats about how her movement background helps her behind the camera and on the page, as well as what she loved about working with Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara.

Angela Carter helped reinvent the fairytale with her book The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, and then she helped turn one of her stories into a movie, with director Neil Jordan.

In «Warrior» director Gavin O'Connor's Western drama, after Jane (Portman) discovers her outlaw husband (Noah Emmerich) riddled with bullets and barely alive, she reluctantly turns to an ex-lover (Joel Edgerton) to help her defend her farm against her husband's gang, which she knows is coming to finish the job.

It helps that Joseph Gordon - Levitt turns out to be a really fresh and exciting director.

Jake Gyllenhaal has really turned around his career over the past few years with character - driven films like «Nightcrawler,» «Enemy» and «Prisoners,» so it only seems natural that he would want to collaborate with Jean - Marc Vallée, the Canadian - born director who led Matthew McConaughey to Oscar gold in «Dallas Buyers Club» and helped revive Reese Witherspoon's career with «Wild.»

With beautiful but bland direction and a script that can't help but overstate everything, this film is an odd misstep for Eastwood and his assistant - turned - director Lorenz.

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (Lionsgate, February 14) Starring: Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Tasha Smith, Gary Sturgis, Tracee Ellis Ross, Lou Gossett, Jr., Malinda Williams, Terri J. Vaughn, Cassie Davis, Juanita Jennings, LaVan Davis Director: Tyler Perry Rating: PG - 13 The Pitch: A single father (Elba) turns to a successful lawyer (Union) for help in hanging onto custody of his three daughters.

Alongside regular collaborator, the late director Harold Ramis, the comedy legend helps turn what could have been a one - trick pony into a smart and surreal existential rom - com that you want to watch over and over again.

The screenwriter - turned - director who helped engrave Martin Scorsese's reputation with his scripts for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull is wearing black pants and a nubbly black sweater over a white shirt.

Earning a Best Actor nomination for Colin Firth, A Single Man also established Ford as an actor's director and helped in turn attract the likes of two of Hollywood's finest, Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, for his latest feature, Nocturnal Animals.

That brings us more or less to John Wick, as director Chad Stahelski and the army of drivers, stunt coordinators, military veterans, tactical firearms consultants, and Brazilian jiu - jitsu instructors who helped turn Keanu Reeves into a precision - tuned killing machine assert their legitimacy as heirs to a tradition that began in the days of hand - cranked cameras and nitrate stock.

Rogue One opens with brilliant engineer Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) being kidnapped from his pastoral retreat by sneery Director Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn, very good in his first scenes, less so later on in a particularly sheety cloak), taken to help create the Death Star, so seeming to turn to the dark side.

Helmed by first - time director Cedric Nicolas Troyan, the film's glorious visuals and passionate turns from the always - brilliant trio of Blunt, Theron and Chastain help negate the well - trodden fairytale narrative.

Director Anne Fletcher has helped turn the male buddy cop genre on its head, mixing period jokes with the usual car chases and shootouts associated with such films.

The Taika Waititi influence runs deep across the Marvel Universe these days, with the director and all around fashion icon driving Thor: Ragnarok to incredible heights and clearly helping shape much of Julian Dennison's turn as Russell Collins based on their work together in the 2016 masterpiece Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Oscar ® - winning Best Director Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind, 1939) deftly orchestrates the script's tense drama and hilarious erotic comedy, helping Gable and Harlow turn Red Dust into pure gold.

Like Transformers before it, it's a great idea for a kid's toy line and a tentpole action flick — and you might as well get the director behind one of the biggest - earning vehicular action movies of all time to help turn it into one.

Oscar - winning screenwriter - turned - director Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network») is not to be underestimated; he adapted Molly Bloom's truth - is - stranger - than - fiction gambling thriller starring twice - nominated Jessica Chastain («The Help,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as a brilliant skier - turned - high - stakes - poker - wrangler — she's a long shot in this year's overcrowded Actress category.

After several years of intense and successful lobbying to block the Reagan Administration's attempts to alter educational programs for handicapped children, the organization that represents the nation's state directors of special education is now turning its attention to helping the states improve special - education services.

Max Silverman, CEL associate director, added that the tools will also help school districts «transform their central offices, turning them into true teaching and learning support systems.

«It is our goal to give students across America a clear voice, which in turn helps educators and school leaders better understand and act on some of the biggest challenges facing their schools,» says YouthTruth Executive Director Jen Vorse Wilka.

David Hinojosa, J.D., director of the federally - funded IDRA EAC - South, discusses how some school districts in the South have turned to using students» socioeconomic backgrounds to help integrate schools.

As RIM rolls out Q4 2012 financial earnings, they've also gone ahead an announced some recent changes within the organization and ultimately their Board of Directors: «As I complete my retirement from RIM, I'm grateful for this remarkable experience and for the opportunity to have worked with outstanding professionals who helped turn a Canadian idea into a global success,» said Jim...

(iVE BEEN AROUND CPS FOR QUIT SOMETIME) Its funny that the new director of the pound had a big story on her following this.A lot of local people wanted to help but got turned away a lot of outsiders helped and most puppys shipped off.

In May of 1998, the of Board of Directors approved the creation of Charlie's Fund to help sick and injured animals that are turned over to the shelter.

Barbara Carr, executive director for the SPCA Serving Erie County, said, «This community has come together in the past when similar cases have occurred, and we're again turning to community members for help in solving this case.

«The purpose of the Bayer Excellence in Communication Award is to help develop strong communications skills among veterinarians that will in turn, result in healthier pets,» said Cristinao von Simson, DVM, MBA and director of veterinary services at Bayer HealthCare Animal Division.

It turned out the owners were overwhelmed and, hoping to help, the Sheriff asked Aldwin Roman, Anti-cruelty and Outreach Director with Charleston Animal Society, to meet with them.

«We remain optimistic that these gains, along with attractive travel packaging and easy booking ability through American Airlines Vacations Air + Hotel, will help turn Haiti into one of the top destinations in the Caribbean,» added Tamara Magloire, Director of Marketing & International Affairs.

The classics those directors helped create could very well be turned into a terrifying and unforgettable game, but this, sure as hell, is not it.

Kathryn Kanjo returned to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2010 as Chief Curator and Head of Curatorial after nearly two decades across the country as curator and director in museums including Portland Art Museum and University Art Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara, as well as the artist residency program Artpace in San Antonio where she helped turn the formerly private foundation into a public charity that went on to feature over 70 on - site specific works by artists.

It won't turn you into an art director overnight, but it will help make your relationship with your designer more productive.

This application is an innovative way to help workers who need assistance and often do not know where to turn to for information and support» said Zana Bytheway, JobWatch Executive Director.

Once she officially became president, Klein told attendees of the Indiana State Bar Solo and Small Firm Conference that she, together with ABA Deputy Executive Director Jim Dimos, took those concerns and turned them into a new tool solo and small firm attorneys, and all ABA members, could use to help alleviate their administrative burdens — ABA Blueprint.

A meeting between PBLO and Catholic Children's Aid revealed the legal department at the agency was getting a number of requests from adoption workers asking for help in finalizing adoptions for some of the former Crown wards who had just turned 18, says Lynn Burns, executive director of PBLO.